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Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.

Shannon Hale

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Home
Breath
Wells
Breaths
Gosling
Well
Worse
Scratched
Done
Lucky
Sadder
Kind
Bits
Homecoming
Hurt
Bruised
Poor
Hurts
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Wiser

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